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Factors Affecting SLA
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- 1Affective Domain- It is one of the three domains in Bloom's Taxonomy.
- It involves our feelings, emotions, and attitudes.
- It includes the manner in which we deal with things emotionally, such as feelings, values, appreciations, enthusiasms, motivations and attitudes - 2Affective Factors in SLA- Self-Esteem
- Attribution Theory and Self-Efficacy
- Willingness to communicate
- Inhibition
- Risk Taking
- Anxiety
- Empathy
- Extroversion
- Motivation - 3Self-EsteemTerm used to describe a person's overall subjective sense of personal worth or value
- 4Attribution Theory and Self-EfficacyHow people explain thier own failures or success.
The belief that one is capable of performing in a certain manner to attain certain goals. - 5Willingness to communicateIt is a concept that has recently started to receive considerable attention in second-language acquisition.
It explains why learners do (or do not) engage in target language communication. - 6Inhibition- It is the mechanism a person uses to protect themselves from exposure to others.
- Inhibited students feel vulnerable or even less capable than their peers.
- Inhibition has a negative impact on performance but not necessarily on learning. - 7Risk TakingRisk-taking is one of the most important features of a good language learner.
- 8Anxiety- It is a feeling of worry, unease, or nervousness. It is a typical reaction to stress.
- It seems clear that high levels of language anxiety are associated with low levels of academic achievement in language learning. - 9Empathy-Empathy plays a crucial role in language acquisition and language learning process.
- We need empathy if we want to learn another language to the highest level. This is how we can best understand a new language,